RANDOM TIDS & BITS- Mon 3/18/24

“Is Your #2 Fact of the Day…Serving In Congress After Serving Time…& What Color Is Your Collar”

One gram of your poop has 100 billion bacteria in it, and 100 million viruses and other organisms too.

Only one person has ever been elected to Congress while they were in jail.  Matthew Lyon was a Democratic-Republican from Vermont who got elected in 1798 while he was doing four months in jail.  He was convicted under the Alien and Sedition Acts for writing negative things about John Adams.

There aren’t just blue collar and white collar workers.  There are other colors too, like red collar for government workers, and green collar for people in jobs that are good for the environment.

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RANDOM TIDS & BITS- Thu 3/14/24

“All We Do Is Win-Since 1993…It’s In There-But Not Really…& Skip The Next 4 Strokes” 

The New York Yankees have had a winning record for 31 straight seasons, starting in 1993.  That’s the third-longest streak in the four major sports. The Yankees also hold the all-time record, with 39 consecutive winning seasons from 1926 to 1964.  The NHL’s Montreal Canadiens had 32 winning seasons from the 1950s into the 1980s, so the Yankees can tie that mark this year.

The word “female” is NOT based on the word “male.”  Male comes from the Latin word “masculus” . . . and female comes from the French word “femelle.”

A hole-in-one on a par-5 hole in golf is called a “condor.”  It’s considered the hardest thing to do in golf, and there’s never been one in a pro tournament.

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RANDOM TIDS & BITS- Wed 3/13/24

“Mensa Minecraft Markus…Good Good Guy & Good Bad Guy…& Rich New Jersey Leather!” 

Markus “Notch” Persson . . . the man who created “Minecraft” . . . didn’t graduate high school.  Instead, he spent most of his time learning programming online.  And now he’s a member of the Swedish chapter of Mensa.

The Terminator is the only character that made AFI’s lists of the 50 best heroes in movie history AND the 50 best villains.

Corinthian leather doesn’t have any connection to the Greek city Corinth.  It was invented and produced in Newark, New Jersey.

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RANDOM TIDS & BITS- Tues 3/12/24

“Risqué Chicken Parts…Pet Presidential Possums…& 305 Feet Of Copper!” 

We call chicken and turkey legs “drumsticks” because it wasn’t polite to say the word “leg” at the dinner table in the 1700s and 1800s.  Thighs and breasts were called dark meat and white meat back then, for the same reason.

Benjamin Harrison had two pet opossums when he was president named Mr. Reciprocity and Mr. Protection.

The layer of copper that covers the Statue of Liberty is only slightly thicker than a penny.

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RANDOM TIDS & BITS- Mon 3/11/24

“Dot Com is Dot #1…Second Chance With A One-Eyed Green Monster…& Which ‘I’ Was First!” 

The most common domain extension is .com.  45.5% of all websites have a domain with .com.  The second-most common is .org.  And the third most popular is .ru, which belongs to Russia.

Billy Crystal turned down the chance to be Buzz Lightyear in “Toy Story”, so it went to Tim Allen.  When Pixar found out Billy Crystal called it the biggest mistake of his career, they offered him the role of Mike in “Monsters, Inc.” . . . and he accepted.

Cisco released a product called the iPhone in 1998.  It was a desk phone with a sliding keyboard and a touch screen.  It flopped . . . but they still sued Apple for using the name nine years later.  The lawsuit was eventually settled.

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RANDOM TIDS & BITS- Fri 3/08/24

“Dashboard Computer Power…Female Firepower…& Capital Distance!” 

The dashboard touch screens in most modern cars run up to 14 times more code than a Boeing 787.

Only two women have ever tried to assassinate a U.S. president . . . and both of them went after Gerald Ford within three weeks of each other in 1975.

Lee County in Virginia is so far west that it’s closer to eight other state capital cities than it is to Richmond.  It’s closer to the capitals in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, West Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio, and Indiana.

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RANDOM TIDS & BITS- Thu 3/07/24

“A Virtual Noah’s Ark In A Box…Total Metal State…& Go Towards the Light!” 

There have been 54 different animals in the original brand of Animal Crackers since 1902.  The most recent addition was the koala in 2002.

Alabama is the only state in the country that contains all of the major natural resources needed to make iron and steel.

Bananas are curved because they fight gravity to grow towards the sun.

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RANDOM TIDS & BITS- Wed 3/06/24

“In The Nation-But, Nothing National…I’ll Pay You In Rum…& They’re Not Great-They’re Grand!” 

Delaware was the “first state” . . . but up until 10 years ago, it was the only state that did not have a national park, a national monument, a national historic site, or any other unit of the National Park Service. That changed in 2013 with the creation of “First State National Historical Park,” which is made up of seven sites throughout Delaware that “collectively tell stories that shaped the nation’s first state.”

When Australia was colonized in 1788, the first currency they used was rum.  And that lasted for more than a decade before they came up with a real type of money.

We call our grandparents’ brothers and sisters great uncles and great aunts, but technically that’s incorrect.  We’re supposed to call them GRAND uncles and grand aunts.

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RANDOM TIDS & BITS- Tue 3/05/24

“The Parks Gots The Land…Paid In Pilsner…& My Super Sub” 

The National Park system covers 84.6 million acres, or 3.4% of U.S. land.

The oldest paycheck that’s ever been found is from around 3,000 B.C. in a city called Uruk in the Middle East.  And the person was paid in beer.

The first Subway sandwich shop was called “Pete’s Drive In: Super Submarines.”  It opened in Bridgeport, Connecticut in 1965 and was renamed Subway three years later.

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RANDOM TIDS & BITS- Mon 3/04/24

“Less Of A Pain To Be a Redhead…Gotta Earn Your Camo…& Stopping The Baseball Action To Sell You a Watch” 

Redheaded people need about 20% more anesthesia than people with other colors of hair . . . the gene mutation for red hair also affects the body’s pain tolerance.

Seventeen countries have a ban on people owning or wearing camouflage clothing if they’re not police officers or in the armed forces.  The countries are mostly in the Caribbean and Africa.

The first TV commercial aired on July 1st, 1941, before a Brooklyn Dodgers-Philadelphia Phillies game.  It was for the Bulova Watch Company.

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